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No. 616,615. Patented Dec. 27, I398. F. J. HAGEN.

WAVE MOTOR.

(Application filed July 25, 1898,)

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(Application filed. July 25, 1898.) (No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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FERDINAND .l. IIAGEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO BENJAMIN H. IIOMAN, OF SAME PLACE.

WAVE-M OTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent Iva 616,615, dated December 27', 1898.

Application filed July 25, 1898- Serial No. 686,840. (No model.)

To (Z6 whom it m y c ncern: suitable support. By means of the parallel Be it known that I, FERDINAND J. HAGEN, levers the float will be maintained in substana citizen of the United States, and a resident tially the same horizontal position throughof the borough of Manhattan, city and State out its movement. Mounted on the shaft 4 55 5 of New York, have invented certain new and is an upright arm 5, which is connected at useful Improvements in Wave-Motors, of its upper end to a short link 6, which in turn which the following is a specification, referis pivoted to the end of a horizontal reciproence being had therein to the accompanying eating rod 7, mounted in bearings S. The drawings, in whichother end of this rod is connected to a link 9, 6o 10 Figure 1 is a side elevation. Fig. 2 is a which in turn is pivoted to the downwardplan view. Fig. 3 is a detail side elevation extending crank 10, secured to a rock-shaft of the auxiliary pump. Figeisadetail hori- 10, which is mounted in bearings 11. Sezontal section of said pump, and Fig. 5 is a cured to this shaft is a rearward-extending detail sectional View of the means for varyarm 11", in the rear end of which is mounted 65 z 5 ing the length of the pump-operating rod. a grooved roller 12, which works upon the The invention relates to that class of waveunder edge of a long rearward-extending-lemotors wherein a float which rises and falls ver 13, whose forward end is pivoted in a on the waves is carried by suitable levers support 11 above the rock-shaft 10. C011- and through said levers operates a pumping nected to this lever 13 beyond roller 12 is a 70, 2o mechanism which forces water into a presdepending link 14, whose lower end is consure-reservoirorasuitablestorage-tank, from nected to a piston-rod 15 of a single-acting which it is drawn to operate any suitable pump 16. Mounted on the rear end of lever motor. 13 is a weight 17, which may be adjusted It has for its object to provide a motor thereon to secure the desired pressure on the 75 wherein the force of the rising waves will be piston of pump 10.

utilized for the main pumping operation, the The rod 7 is formed in two sections, and the force of the falling float performing a minor adjoining ends of the sections are threaded portion of the work. in opposite directions and are connected by The invention consists in the novel combia correspondingly-threadedsleeve 18, which 80 o nation and arrangement of parts hereinafter is mounted to slide through bearings 19 and described, and particularly pointed outin the is formed with a longitudinal groove 20. claims appended. Mounted on this sleeve is a worm-gear 21,

Referring to the various parts by numerformed with a rib which fits groove 20. Enals, 1 designatesthe float, which is triangular gaging this gear 21 is a Worm 22, which is car- 85 in vertical section, is hollow, and its interior ried by a shaft 23 and rotated by means of a filled with cork. The upper side of the float is crank. By means of this mechanism the rod horizontal, while the front or rear sides, which 7 may be varied in length, in order to secure contact with the water, incline inward and the proper relative positions of the float and downward and meet at the vertical center of angle-lever 10. It will be obvious that any 90 the float. By reason of this formation the other suitable mechanism may be employed waves will act on the float with a great lifting for varying the length of this rod. force, and as the float is very light it will be Extending forward from the rock-shaft 10 readily liftedby the waves. Connected to this is a lever 24, and to its forward end is confloat near its lower edge (one on each of its nected a link 25, whose other end is pivoted 5 ends) are levers 2, whose other ends are pivto a piston-rod 26 of an auxiliary pump 27.

oted on the sea-wall or other suitable place. The lower ends of pumps 16 and 27 are pro- To the top of the float, directly over the levided with suction-heads 28, which extend vers 2, are pivoted a pair of levers 3, which into a tank 29, which is adapted to contain a are parallel with levers 2 and have their 111- supply of water. To the outlet-valve of the 100 ner ends secured to a horizontal shaft 4, main pump 16 is connected a pipe 30, which mounted in bearings which are carried by a is provided with a check-valve 31, and connected to the outlet-valve of the auxiliary pump is a pipe 32, provided with a checkvalve 33. Pipe 32 connects the auxiliary pump to a large elevated storage-tank 34. Connecting the outlet-pipes of the two pumps to a pressure-tank 35 is a pipe 36, and in this pipe, adjacent the tank 35, is a check-valve 37 and a cut-off valve 38, and between pipes and 32 this pipe 36 is provided with a cutofi valve 39. The pipe 32, between pump 27 and pipe 36, is provided with a cut-off valve 40, and adjacent the tank 34 it is provided with a cut-off valve 41.

From the pressure-tank 35 extends pipe 42, which extends upward and is connected to the pipe 32 adjacent the elevated storage-tank 34. Near its connection with pipe 32 this pipe is provided with a stop-valve 43. Between this valve 43 and the main pressuretank 35 the pipe 42 is connected to auxiliary pressure-tanks 44 by branch pipes. Adjacent these tanks these pipes are provided with check-valves 45 and cut-0E valves 46. Each tank 44 is provided with a valved nozzle 47, through which water is forced against a water-wheel 48 of suitable construction. The shafts of these wheels are provided with suitable belt wheels, through which power is transmitted to any desired place. Under these water-wheels and adapted to collect the water therefrom is a long trough 49, which carries the collected water forward to a large water-wheel 50 and delivers it thereon. After rotating this large wheel the water falls into tank 29. A pipe 51 is arranged to deliver water from tank 34 to the top of waterwheel 50 to drive said wheel whenever the supply from wheels 48 is insuflicient. In this pipe is a valve 52, which is connected by suitable levers to a governor 53. By this means the governor automatically governs the amount of Water flowing from tank 34.

In the pipe 42, between the main tank 35 and the auxiliary tank 44, is placed a reducing-valve 54, which limits the pressure in said auxiliary tanks, and connected to the main pressure-tank is a pipe 55, which contains a safety-valve 56 to regulate the pressure in said tank.

The tank 29 is preferably filled with fresh water; but where the apparatus is to be operated by the sea or other salt water and a supply of fresh water cannot be obtained for tank 29 salt water may be drawn up through pipe 57, which is connected to the auxiliary pump and is provided with a check-valve 58 and a stop-valve 59.

The operation is as follows: The raising of the float by the waves forces the bar 7 rearward and through rock-shaft 1O raises weighted lever 13, thereby elevating the piston of the main pump and through lever 24, connected to rock-shaft 10, depresses the piston of the auxiliary pump. This fills the main cylinder with water and empties the auxiliary cylinder. The falling of the float will now lower roller 12 from lever 13 and permit the heavy weight 17 to force the water out of the main cylinder, and at the same time the descending float through arm 24 and rock-shaft 10 will elevate the piston of the auxiliary pump. In this way the float in falling does no work except to fill the auxiliary-pump cylinder with water, while the force of the rising waves is utilized to expel the water from the auxiliary pump and elevate the weighted lever, which latter when released expels the water from the main pump. In this way the greater forcenamely, that derived from the rising of the float-is made to do the main portion of the work, while the lesser force that derived from the falling of the floathas a very small proportion of the work to perform.

By means of the apparatus shown the water from the pumps may be utilized in various ways. By closing valves 41 and 43 the two pumps will force water into the pressure-tank 35 for use on the wheels 48. By closing valves 39 and 43 the main pump will force water into tank 35, while the auxiliary pump will force water into tank 34. If when the wheels 48 are not in use or at any other time it is desired to permit water from pressure-tank 35 to pass into storage-tank 34, valve 43 is to be opened. IVhenever it is desired to utilize both pumps to force water into tank 34, valves 38 and 43 are to be closed.

To facilitate the adjusting of the weight 17 v on lever 13, a rope and pulley-block 60 are provided.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. In a motor the combination of a float adapted to rise and fall with the water, a horizontal rod, means connecting said rod to the float so that said rod will be reciprocated by said float, a weighted lever adapted to be raised by said rod but to descend independently thereof, a pump adapted to be operated by the rising and falling of said weighted lever, substantially as described.'

2. In a motor the combination of a float adapted to be raised by waves, a horizontal rod adapted to be reciprocated by the rising and falling of the float, a rock-shaft connected to said reciprocating rod, a lever secured to the rock-shaft, a weighted lever adapted to be raised by the lever on the rock-shaft but to descend independently thereof, a pump adapted to be operated by said weighted le ver, whereby the raising of the float by the wave will raise the weighted lever and the falling of the float will permit the said lever to complete the action of the pump.

3. In a motor the combination of a float, a weighted lever, a pump adapted to be operated by said lever, and means whereby the rise of the float will raise the weighted lever and the fall of the float will release the lever and permit it to descend independently.

4. In a motor the combination of a float, a rock-shaft, means connecting the float to the rock-shaft, oppositely-e2ri'te11ding" arms on said shaft a pump adapted to be operated, by one of said arms a weighted lever adapted to be I operated by the other of said arms, a pump adapted to be operated by the falling of said I lever, substantially as described.

I by the other of saidartns, these arms being so disposed that the weighted lever will be raised by the raising of the float, a pump adapted to be operated by the Weighted lever.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, in the presence of two witnesses,

5. In a motor the combination of a float, a this 22d day of July, 1898. reciprocating rod connected thereto, means for varying the length of said rod, two oppositelyextending arms on said rock shaft, a pump adapted to be operated by one of said arms, a weighted lever adapted to be raised FERDINAND J. HAGEN.

\Vitnesses:

J L. DUTSCH, WM. GOTTGEBETTE. 

